So sorry I have been gone for so long. Now all my responsibilities academically for university applications and everything is finished, so I should have more time. R&R.
"Where might you be my good friend whom I have never met?" I questioned loudly to the annoyance of Maeglin. It had been unanimously decided that Loyal should not be the one to accompany him if the race to Beleg. No one had come with any ideas, so wandering was left to us. Maeglin and I were one group and the other was Glorfindel, Ecthelion, and Loyal. You might say that we lost each other for cell phones of course.
"Where would a Beleg be?" I asked aloud.
"Up a tree where all of the wood elves are" Maeglin hissed back. He just wasn't happy to be here. We gave him pizza and he still was being difficult.
"Then you'll be the one to climb the tree after him" We turned towards the slightly wooded edge of the neighborhood. It wasn't big enough to call a forest or the woods, but there were indeed trees. We moved in silence, or he did, while I rustled the leaves with my footsteps. "why are you so angry?" I asked. He tensed for a moment before shooting me a frosty look.
"I am not angry. I am simply suffering due to your lack of competence" He said staring me down.
"WHAT! I am NOT incompetent, just a little clumsy. You sir, you sir...ooooh" I trailed off into an offended silence. He smirked at me, eyes still brimming with undercurrents of a darker emotion.
"We have someone to find, now be quiet and follow me" He ordered. I bristled with anger myself. This isn't Gondolin. My phone rang, interrupting my annoyed thoughts.
"Hello?" I answered, pushing fake happiness into my voice.
We will be here tomorrow to pick up you and Loyal. What time is best?" My mom said on the other end of the connection.
"Perhaps he went to the woods" Ecthelion suggested, for the fifth time.
"I think he would have headed to the nearest person." Glorfindel refuted.
"Nearest person. Whats this neighborhood? A ghost town?" Loyal demanded. "There are plenty of people in the houses and don't you tell me he cant hear them with his ridiculously good elf hearing." Ecthelion smiled at her.
"Exactly, the woods" he said smugly to Glorfindel.
"Oh all right, its possible" He conceded.
"Its been only three hours since we left for the mall. How far could he have gotten?" Loyal sighed. Ecthelion and Glorfindel exchanged knowing looks, but wisely didn't say anything. They kept along at a decent pace for about 20 minutes.
"Stop" Glorfindel held up a hand.
"What is it" Ecthelion looked around, eyes narrowing.
"I can sense him, he is not far" Glorfindel repsonded.
"Indeed I am not" Loyal jumped at the new voice behind her and then caught her breathe in surprise. He waterfall silver hair hanging loose and clear, intelligent eyes.
"Whats the big idea! wandering around, getting lost and making us look for you. And why did you sneak up on us. Are you a walking cardiac arrest of terror?" Loyal shouted in one breath. Beleg stared at her for a moment before looking at Glorfindel and Ecthelion.
"I apologize, dear lady, but I was not lost, merely observing the terrain. You must be one of our hostesses?" Beleg almost inquired as a question, yet getting the inflection to sound anything other than a statement.
"Yes, I am Loyal" She said raising an eyebrow at his tone.
"Well we must return and inform Silver and Maeglin" Ecthelion spoke up.
"Yes, let us be off" Glorfindel said starting down the pathway.